During the interview, Sales, who has previous experience as chief information officer and technical consultant to local and multinational companies including Citibank and Bank of the Philippines (BPI), talked about concepts such as 'enterprise architecture' and 'portfolio management" that he said can also be applied to IT in government.

'We need to define the hardware requirements (of agencies) and next bring the applications that would run on top it,' he added. He also talked about creating 'service centers' that will serve back-up and disaster recovery requirements in government.